The Impact of Overhangs and Side-fins on Building Thermal Comfort, Visual Comfort and Energy Consumption in the Tropics حسب El Sherif, Sherihan Khairy

"…The rapid booming in the field of building construction during the last few decades created many challenges for this issue in the research zone in terms of its negative effects on the environment due to large amounts of carbon dioxide emissions resulting from the excessive energy use by the building systems. …"
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Loss of FOXA2 induces ER stress and hepatic steatosis and alters developmental gene expression in human iPSC-derived hepatocytes حسب Maryam Aghadi (17128819)

"…Functional assays demonstrated an increase in lipid accumulation, bile acid synthesis and glycerol production, while a decrease in glucose uptake, glycogen storage, and Albumin secretion. …"

Differential water quality in confined and free-flowing water bodies, Lebanon حسب Korfali, Samira Ibrahim

"…Statistical analysis of the data revealed significant differences in water quality. The differences could be attributed to the fact that whereas the Qaraaoun reservoir is receiving domestic waste discharges that lead to an increase in the CO2 content and a pH decrease, the Nahr-Ibrahim River is influenced by agricultural runoffs and industrial discharges that increase the pH values. …"
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Social Media Use and Body Checking Among Lebanese Adults حسب Korkomaz, Aya

"…Background: The recent increase in social media use has been associated with body checking and body image dissatisfaction. …"
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A Cross-cultural study of pragmatically requestive speech act realization patterns حسب Elsayed, Elsayed Mahmoud

"…It also looks at the types of politeness strategies, which could increase or decrease the degree of the imposion on the hearer(s), employed by the two groups in terms of the aforementioned sociolinguistic variables. …"
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Geopolitical instability and environmental sustainability حسب Dagar, Vishal

"…Panel quantile regression results show a significant relationship between increased geopolitical risk, ecological footprints, and carbon emissions, with coefficients ranging from 0.357 to 0.785 across quantiles in the case of ecological footprints and 0.939–1.961 for carbon emissions. …"
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Feasibility of a group-based laughter yoga therapy on anxiety and happiness among community-dwelling older adults: A quasi-experimental study حسب Mona Metwally El-Sayed (17725127)

"…</p><p><br></p><h3>Conclusion and recommendations</h3><p dir="ltr">Participation in laughing yoga therapy significantly reduced anxiety and increased happiness among elderly people. …"

Efficacy of Lebanese Cannabis Oil Extract in the Treatment of Folic Acid-Induced Renal Fibrosis in Rats حسب Bylan, Diana

"…Treatment with 20mg/Kg Cannabis oil caused a significant increase in body weight compared to the Folic acid treated group. …"
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ROS-Mediated Autophagic Death in Glioblastoma Cells Upon Treatment by Human Recombinant Arginase I (Co)- PEG5000 [HuArgI (Co)-PEG5000] حسب Abdel Khalek, Maya

"…Our results first showed a significant increase in HuArgI (Co)-PEG5000 treated cells for both U251 and A172 in autophagosome formation; suggesting activation of autophagy in response to arginine deprivation. …"
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Qatar’s immigrants at higher risk of diabetes حسب Nature Research (16552612)

"…The results, however, suggest that Qatar’s immigrant population has a significantly increased risk of having undiagnosed T2D, and that glycated haemoglobin levels could be a useful diagnostic tool for early detection of the disease. …"

Growth hormone treatment modulates active ghrelin levels in rats حسب Haddad, Haytham

"…Genotropin treatment caused a dose dependent decrease in active ghrelin concentration in stomach, kidney and pancreas with a concomitant increase in plasma, and reaching significance at 20 and 100 µg/rat/day doses. …"
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The impact of taxation, technological innovation and trade openness on renewable energy investment: Evidence from the top renewable energy producing countries حسب Ebaidalla M. Ebaidalla (16960008)

"…The results of the cross-section ARDL (CS-ARDL) and the pooled mean group ARDL (PMG-ARDL) models indicate that taxation has a negative and significant influence on renewable energy investment across all model specifications, both in the short and long run. …"

The impact of global renewable energy demand on economic growth – evidence from GCC countries حسب Lahrech, Abdelmounaim

"…Findings – As expected, the findings indicated a significant and negative relationship between global renewable energy consumption and GCC economic growth. …"
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Acute exposure to cigarette smoking followed by myocardial infarction aggravates renal damage in an In vivo mouse model حسب Kobeissy, Firas

"…Finally, reactive oxygen species (ROS) production was significantly accentuated in S+MI group concomitant with a significant increase in NOX-4 protein levels. …"
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Pharmacological evaluation of aqueous extract of Althaea officinalis flower grown in Lebanon حسب Hage-Sleiman, Rouba

"…Increasing the dose to 500 mg/kg body weight caused a significant decrease in stool water content. …"
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Improving the Performance Measurement Using Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) in Borouge حسب ALMUTAWA, MUBARAK

"…The main issue found relating to the two extruder production lines productivity was where availability and quality show a significant decrease. Thus, data were collected for 12 months from the two extruders and analysed using Microsoft Excel Software to determine the value of the output table and presented graphically. …"
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Visitors off the trail: Impacts on the dominant plant, bryophyte and lichen species in alpine heath vegetation in sub-arctic Sweden حسب Monika, Rawat

"…The results showed that proximity to the trail did not cause a decrease in the majority of dominant species, with none of the eight most dominant vascular plants showing any significant effects of proximity to the trail. …"
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A GRASP Approach for Solving Large-Scale Electric Bus Scheduling Problems حسب Raka Jovanovic (17947838)

"…The results of the conducted computational experiments indicate that an increase in infrastructure investment through high speed chargers can significantly decrease the size of the necessary fleets. …"

Multilayer Reversible Data Hiding Based on the Difference Expansion Method Using Multilevel Thresholding of Host Images Based on the Slime Mould Algorithm حسب Abu Zitar, Raed

"…As a result, the embedding capacity in each class can increase by reducing the value of the difference between two consecutive pixels, and the distortion of the marked image can decrease after inserting the personal data using the DE method. …"
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COVID-19 lockdowns weigh heavily on youth: an analysis of the impact on BMI for Age Z scores in children and adolescents حسب Muna Abed Alah (14779534)

"…The BAZ increased significantly by 0.30 (95% CI 0.26–0.35). …"